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Line 9: ---- {{tropelist}} ~~=== Tropes include: ===~~ * [[Abusive Parents]]: Mallory's parents, and maybe Mickey's, too. ** Well, maybe not abusive, but as a child, Mickey did see {{spoiler\|his father kill himself.}} * [[Asshole Victim]]: Mallory's father and Jack Scagnetti. * [[Badass Beard]]: Wayne Gale. * [[Bald of Evil]]: Mickey towards the end. * [[Berserk Button]]: The only person who calls Mallory "You stupid bitch" and lives is Mickey. Line 25: * [[Do Not Do This Cool Thing]]: Arguably the whole point of the movie, and a vicious satire of it. * [[The Family That Slays Together]]: {{spoiler\|[[Subverted Trope\|Subverted]]. Mickey and Mallory end their killing sprees after they decide to settle down and have kids.}} * [[The Farmer and the Viper]]: A variation is recounted to by a Native American who shelters Mickey and Mallory. {{spoiler\|Sure enough, he's killed by Mickey, but accidentally - Mickey comes out of a nightmare and fires his gun on reflex. Mallory is not amused.}} * [[Freudian Excuse]]: Mickey and Mallory both had abusive fathers, with Mallory's dad molesting her and Mickey's dad killing himself in front of his son. ** Scagnetti had a similar excuse, as his mother was killed by a spree killer. * [[Hilariously Abusive Childhood]]: [[Subverted Trope\|Subverted HARD]], possibly in staunch defiance of the trope played straight. {{spoiler\|The scene showing Mallory's family life is done in the style of a 90's sitcom, complete with canned laughter, exaggerated set design, and sitcom-styled joke script... which informs the viewer that Mallory's father has been raping her for longer than her brother has been alive (because the only reason Kevin was born is because Dad didn't realize he was in his own bedroom and not Mallory's) and her mother doesn't object because he beats her.}} * [[Hollywood Healing]]: For someone who has just bitten by a rattle snake, Mickey didn't have a problem engaging in a shootout. * [[If It Bleeds, It Leads]]: A ruthless satire of this trope. Line 37: * [[Karmic Death]]: {{spoiler\|In a deleted scene, instead of [[Karma Houdini\|running away and raising a family]], Mickey and Mallory are killed by the same serial killer that helped them escape the prison, because [[Word of God\|Stone said]] that the best comeuppance for the two was to be killed by "their own ilk".}} * [[Mood Dissonance]]: All the frakkin' time. * [[Outlaw Couple]]: Mickey and Mallory. * [[The Plan]]: [[Subverted Trope\|Subverted]] in that Mickey and Mallory didn't actually plan the riot. They instead attribute their miraculous escape to "fate." * [[Scary Shiny Glasses]]: Mickey's glasses. * [[Slasher Smile]] * [[Strawman News Media]]: Type 4. * [[Throw It In]]: Wayne Gale's Australian accent. [[Robert Downey, Jr.]]. observed and spent time with Steve Dunleavy, an Australian shock-TV host, and returned to filming with the accent. [[Tropic Thunder\|Not the last time he would use this accent, by the way.]] * [[Title Drop]]: "Shit, man. I'm a Natural Born Killer." * [[What the Hell, Hero?\|What The Hell, Villain?]]: {{spoiler\|When Mickey accidentally kills the Indian, Mallory really lays into him.}}▼ * [[Villain Protagonist\|Villain Protagonists]] ▲* [[What the Hell, Hero?\|What The Hell, Villain?]]: {{spoiler\|When Mickey accidentally kills the Indian, Mallory really lays into him.}} * [[X Meets Y]]: ''[[Kalifornia]]'' meets ''[[Network]]''. * [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: Mallory's mother has purple hair, mostly a [[Shout-Out]] to Alex's mother in ''[[A Clockwork Orange (film)\|A Clockwork Orange]]''. Line 53 ⟶ 52: [[Category:Films of the 1990s]] [[Category:Natural Born Killers]] [[Category:Films With Recuts]] [[Category:Film]]